Quarter Century Club

Sounds like a funny joke or a HBD Instagram caption on your friend’s birthday, but let me tell you, you turn 25 and adulthood feels reaaaaal real, real fast.

Let me share a few things that will happen once you join this club:

1. All your friends get engaged. All of them. And then they all start saying “you’re next!” Then you’ll ask your boyfriend about when you’re getting engaged. Crickets.
2. You’ll feel this increasing sense of pressure to figure your life out. Life becomes a tug-of-war between wanting to be in bed watching Gilmore Girls and living vicariously through Rory and the desire to become a “career woman.”
3. You’ll debate endlessly about whether or not you should go back to school or quit the working world altogether to become a nomad. Seriously people, becoming a nomad sounds superb right now.
4. You’ll spend half of your work day on Psychology Today convincing yourself that there’s a path out there for you, you just aren’t looking hard enough. So maybe you should take a personality test. Myers-Briggs will provide insight, sure, oh but maybe you don’t like your four letter combination and decide to take it again, only to realize you don’t like that letter combination’s supposed personality traits either.
5. You’ll quit social media and decide that in order to share all the excess thoughts in your head, you’ll bring your blog out of retirement. So here we are.

 

Here’s to seeing what 2018 brings!